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On October
10 I published
my review of
the Leica Q3
43. It was
last revised
on October 31.
On September
26 I published
a full field
and studio
test of the
lens on the
new Leica Q3
43.
On September
12 I
published an
article
looking at how
the Leica Q3
and M11
Monochrom work
as tools
for theater
photography.
On August 5 I
published a
full field and
studio test of
the Fujinon
GF80/1.7 R WR
tested on the
Fuji GFX100
II.
On July 24 I
published a
full field and
studio test of
the Sigma
24/1.4 DG DN
Art tested on
the Leica SL3
and SL2. This
lens is also
available in
Canon, Nikon
and Sony
mounts.
On June 28 I
published an
extensive article
looking at the
comparative
performance of
the Leica SL3
and SL2
with three
challenging
wide angle
rangefinder
lenses
On May 30 I
published an
extensive
article
looking at
studio tests
of the Fuji
X100VI. This
is, in
essence, a
"double
feature"
combining the
studio tests I
normally do
for cameras
with those I
usually do for
lenses.
The
tests also
look at the
Fuji's
start-up
speed, AF
speed and raw
buffer.
On April 20 I
published a
full field and
studio test of
the Leica SL
35/2.0
Summicron ASPH
tested on the
Leica SL3 and
SL2.
On March 17 I
published a
studio
comparison
test of the
Leica SL2 and
SL3 that looks
at color
rendering,
performance at
various ISO
levels,
highlight
headroom and
other aspects.
On March 7 I
published my
review of the
Leica SL3. It
is the first
in a new
series looking
at the SL3 and
several
L mount
lenses. Next
up will be a
studio
comparison
test of the
Leica SL2 and
SL3 that looks
at color
rendering,
performance at
various ISO
levels,
highlight
headroom and
more.
Following that
will be full
reviews of the
Leica SL
35/2.0
Summicron,
Sigma 35/1.4
DG DN Art and
Sigma 24/1.4
DG DN Art.
There will
also be
side by side
tests of the
SL2 and SL3
with various
rangefinder
lenses.
On February
21 I
published an
article that
looks at the
ways in which
digital
perspective
correction
changes the
way a picture
is rendered.
The source
cameras for
the test raw
files were the
Fuji GFX100 II
and the Leica
M11 Monochrom.
On February
20 I
published an
article about
my first
impressions of
a
pre-production
Fuji X100 VI.
On February
5 I
published
studio tests
that look at
the color
rendering, ISO
performance,
highlight
headroom
and estimated
native ISO of
Fuji GFX 100
II.
On January
31 I
published a
review of the
Fuji GFX100
II.
On January
10, 2024 I
published an
article that
looks at
Leica's
"Perspective
Control"
feature and
various
workflow
options for
using it. Next
up in this
series we'll
look at the
effects
of
digital
perspective
correction
interpolation
on resolution
(for the Fuji
GFX100 II and
Leica M11
Monochrom).
Every writer naturally brings his or her own
experience and perspective to the articles he or she
writes. My writing is heavily influenced by
my experience working as a professional photographer
for more than thirty-five years. I'm
primarily interested in cameras and lenses as tools
for drawing, as I believe that photography really is a
branch of drawing. As the photographer Henri
Cartier-Bresson once said in an interview, "My photography is just
an instant drawing...I never quit drawing. The
camera is a way of drawing." I'm also guided by the photographer Andre Kertesz's observation, "I see the thing, I feel the thing, I make the thing". So when I review a camera or a lens, I look primarily at how it presents the world to the photographer (via the finder), how it works as a tool in the hands, and how it draws the kind of picture we call a photograph.
"Quite simply, I think your sections on 'drawing' and and on 'sunny day lenses' are the best writing about photographic lenses that I have read - whether in magazines, journals, books or the various sources online. Few professional writers about photography ever attempt such a full consideration of the range of lens performance characteristics and the different ways in which they are photographically significant. Some discussions in photographic communities online circle around the subject, but don't achieve the focus, rigour and articulacy that you have managed here. Your article is what all writing about photographic lenses ought to be like, yet it's astonishing that next to none of it is. Interesting though Irwin Puts Leica lens book is, it would have been so much more interesting, and so much more appropriate to its subject matter, if it had been written as you have written here...I found the article incredibly useful and interesting. A great help in clarifying and firming up what I have experienced and half-understood about how different lenses work." - Simon
Pulman-Jones, England "We all owe you a vote of thanks for such a massive and thorough piece of work. What a concept-- a "lens test" that is really about the pictorial effect of how lenses draw their images. Lines per millimeter and MTF graphs have their place, but your article really gets to the heart of the matter in the way that photographers can relate to instantly." - Peter Klein, USA
- Jim Watts, USA
- Mikiro
Mori, Japan "...a very informative, even enlightening, work. It not only provides visual evidence of comparative lenses' performance, it also gets right to the most important factor of lens evaluation - how the image looks to the photographer. Long ago I stopped reading test charts of lenses since none of my clients ever published any. It is always the look of the finished image that counts." -
Richard Weisgrau, USA "I hope your tests become a benchmark for other reviewers to pay more attention to the real needs of photographers..." - Phil Fogle, USA
- Bill Marshall, USA
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